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Stena to buy Scotland-Ulster ships

Stena Line’s parent company is to acquire the Superfast VII and Superfast VIII ferries which operate on its Cairnryan – Belfast route from December. The ships currently operate under a charter contract agreement with AS Tallink Grupp. Stena's development plan also involves the construction of new vessels which will be built in China. [+]

Stena launches new Irish Sea schedule

Stena Line’s Trade Director, Irish Sea South, Ian Davies, joined master of the Stena Europe, Richard Cleary on the bridge to celebrate the new Fishguard-Rosslare route timetable on 23 May. The new schedule offers three day sailings and an extended overnight crossing. Stena Line is the largest ferry operator on the Irish ... [+]

Good start for Stena in Heysham

Stena Line has reported a 9% year on year increase in its freight volumes on the Belfast – Heysham service during the first quarter of 2017. In the first three months of it carried over 31 000 freight units on the service making it one of the most successful starts ... [+]

Faster – and slower – from Fishguard to Rosslare

Stena Line has revised its Fishguard-Rosslare timetable which now includes three day time sailings and one extended overnight crossing from 22 May. Daytime departures, with a crossing time of 3hr 15min are 15 minutes faster than before. However, the night service now takes slightly longer, at 4hr15mins, to give drivers ... [+]

Stena Holyhead to host electricty from waves scheme

Ferry companies often move oversize shipments for major projects, but UK and European ro ro operator Stena Line has taken the process a stage further by providing the infrastructure for a major scheme. It has entered a joint venture with Swedish-based Minesto to build an assembly hall in Wales, which Minesto ... [+]

New Stena ships to sail to Belfast

Stena has earmarked four new ro-pax ferries announced last year for delivery in 2019 and 2020 for two of its Belfast routes. The vessels are currently being built at the AVIC Shipyard in China and, with a capacity of 3,000 lane metres will be the largest ferries ever to operate ... [+]

Delivering hope to the dockside: Stena teams up with Mercy Ships

Stena Line has signed a long-term partnership to raise and promote volunteering and charitable giving for the Mercy Ships charity. Mercy Ships operates the largest civilian hospital-ship in the world to deliver free, world-class health care services to the world’s poorest people along with helping to create health facilities in the ... [+]

Stena aims ever higher

Stena Line has increased the height of the cargo deck of its Rosslare-Fishguard ferry Stena Europe to allow access for high top trailers, a key requirement of more and more freight customers operating between Britain and Ireland. Trade director for the southern Irish Sea, Ian Davies, said that Stena had taken ... [+]

Stena celebrates five years in Cairnryan

Stena Line celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Belfast – Cairnryan service on 21 November. The service opened in 2011 and was part of an £80m investment by Stena Line included a new Loch Ryan Port being built at Cairnryan in Scotland and the introduction of the two largest ferries ... [+]

Ready for the Christmas rush

Irish Sea ferry operator Stena Line is adding additional freight capacity to its Belfast-Liverpool service ahead of the pre-Christmas trading period. It is adding an extra two sailings per week, from Friday 21 October until 16 December an additional Friday departure from Belfast at 15.30 and, from Monday 24 October ... [+]

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